Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted

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From: Eric Jones
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:23

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In article <1gt111INNt3b@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, tim@computer.bri.hp.com (Tim Phipps) writes:

|> In a previous article Phil Hallam wrote:

|>: 6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing 
|>: applications to create their own file system on top of 
|>: the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
|>: application independent optimization.

|>(Snore) Try "man fseek".
|>
|>Phippo the Hippo.
|>

But isn't that exactly his point?  Sure you can write an ISAM file 
structure using fseek (and if you're REALLY smart, you might even
write an efficient one), but then how's anyone else going to use
your files?

Eric

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Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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